Melchior by Hugo

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Melchior von Hugo (born March 23, 1872 in Usingen , † December 1, 1939 in Hanover ) was a German officer , painter and sculptor .

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Melchior von Hugo was born as the son of the landowner Cuno von Hugo and Marie von der Betten in Usingen, Nassau, where his father was a bailiff. The family moved to Uchte (Lower Saxony) in 1878 and Melchior attended school in Celle and Hanover. In 1889 he entered the Royal Saxon Cadet Institute in Dresden to become an officer.

After ten years, Melchior von Hugo left the military as a first lieutenant in 1899 to turn to painting and sculpture. For this purpose he stayed first in Paris, then in Munich. In Paris he attended the Académie Julian and was then a student of Eugène Carrière . In Munich he frequented writers, u. a. Frank Wedekind , Eduard von Keyserling , Max Dauthendey and Kurt Martens . From October 1900 he was enrolled as a painting student at the Munich Art Academy. In 1902 he moved to Stuttgart and became a student at the Stuttgart Art Academy with Leopold von Kalckreuth and Adolf Hölzel . As assistant to Theodor Fischer , Melchior von Hugo designed large parts of the architectural decoration for the new building of the parish church in Gaggstatt , which was built in 1904/05 according to Fischer's plans. Alongside other Hölzel students, von Hugo was involved in the decoration of the "Ton- und Gymhalle" designed by Fischer for the Pfullinger clubs ("Pfullinger Hallen") in 1907 . Melchior von Hugo contributed reliefs for the facade of the art building also planned by Fischer on Stuttgart's Schlossplatz. In 1913 he was awarded the title of professor by the Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe. Hugo took part in the First World War as a Württemberg officer (captain from 1917). From 1916 he was mainly involved in welfare and funeral services, most recently as an advisor to the Quartermaster General on the Western Front. In November 1918 he returned to Stuttgart.

In the early 1920s, von Hugo and his family moved to Lower Saxony, where they worked on various war memorials. His track as an artist disappears at the end of the decade. Since he and his wife came from a wealthy background, Hugo's artistic work was never a livelihood for Melchior.

Since 1904 Melchior von Hugo was married to Marie Amalia Caroline von Frese (* May 7, 1879 - April 7, 1940), daughter of the landscape councilor August Mauritz Victor von Frese (1850-1920) and Franziska Freiin von Opteda zu Loppersum (1850 -1905). Of the two daughters from the marriage, the younger died in 1907 in infancy. The older daughter Anna (1905–1984) lived as a canoness in Isenhagen Abbey . Melchior von Hugo died on December 1, 1939 in Hanover, his wife on April 7, 1940. Both were buried in the family funeral at the St. Martin cemetery in Seelze .

Works (selection)

Sculpture / plastic

  • Portrait bust of a young man, marble, ins. "19 HM 03" (1903)
  • Gaggstatter crucifix, terracotta; H 49 cm, W 32 cm; Sandel's Museum Kirchberg an der Jagst (1905)
  • Statuette ram, bronze, inscribed. "Hugo", H 18 cm, L 22 cm (around 1905)
  • Portrait bust of Gerd von Hermann, bronze, H 54.5 cm (1908/09)
  • Plaque with a relief portrait of King Wilhelm II of Württemberg; Galvano, gold-plated; H 245 mm, W 178 mm; WMF, Geislingen (1909)
  • Plaque for the silver wedding anniversary of King Wilhelm II of Württemberg and Queen Charlotte on April 8, 1911; Bronze; H 90 mm, W 65 mm; WMF , Geislingen (1911)
  • Portrait bust of Karl von Ostertag-Siegle (1861–1924), paint manufacturer from Stuttgart
  • Two putti statues in front of the Marble Hall in Stuttgart's Weißenburgpark (1913)
  • Reliefs for the facade and portico of the Stuttgart art building on Schlossplatz (1913)
  • War memorial in the cemetery of Martinskirche in Seelze (1921)
  • War memorial at St. Elisabeth Church in Langenhagen (1922)
  • Hindenburg Monument in Herchen (1924/27; destroyed 1945)
  • Ceramic building sculpture and two groups of figures at the entrance of the west wing of the Friederikenstift in Hanover
  • Ceramic building sculpture at the Lutherhaus in Hanover : Statues "Faith" and "Love" above the main portal, portrait medallions by Gerhard Uhlhorn, Adolf Stöcker, Martin Luther, Johann Hinrich Wichern and Friedrich von Bodelschwingh in the main facade (1925)

  • Gaggstatter crucifix

  • Friederikenstift Hannover, figures on the left

  • Friederikenstift Hannover, figures on the right

Painting / graphics

  • Moordorf, oil / cardboard; H 36.5 cm, W 48 cm; re. u. re. "MH 1903" (1903)
  • The apotheosis of music, mural Pfullinger Hallen, ballroom, north wall (1907)
  • The folk song, etching H 13.2 cm, 9.3 cm (around 1920)
  • Still life with flowers, oil / cardboard. H 32 cm, W 28.5 cm (heptagonal), re. o. right "MH 34" (1934)

literature

Archival sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poet of the Round Table
  2. ↑ 02169 Melchior von Hugo, register book 1884–1920. Accessed September 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ For a publication by Herbert Tannenbaum (1892–1958) by the Mannheimer Kunsthandlung , von Hugo provided designs for Jewish war graves ( Jewish grave steles for the field . Designs by Hermann Esch; M. v. Hugo. Ed. By Herbert Tannenbaum, Mannheim 1916).
  4. ^ Ulrich Klein, Albert Raff: The Württemberg Medals from 1864-1933. Stuttgart 2010, No. 172.
  5. ^ Ulrich Klein, Albert Raff: The Württemberg Medals from 1864-1933. Stuttgart 2010, No. 184.
  6. ↑ Helmut Knocke , Hugo Thielen : Humboldtstrasse 5. In Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek (ed.): Hannover. Art and Culture Lexicon (HKuKL), new edition, 4th, updated and expanded edition, zu Klampen, Springe 2007, ISBN 978-3-934920-53-8 , p. 154.
personal data
SURNAME Hugo, Melchior of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, painter and sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Usingen , Taunus
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1939
Place of death Hanover